Ohio Grazing Conference - 27 January 2023 - 8:00am
The 22nd Annual Ohio Grazing Conference at the Mt Hope Event Center features two days of speakers, vendors, and visiting with other farmers. The purpose of the conference is to bring you educational seminars, information, and ideas for the family dairy farms and many other grazing operations as well, motivating us to be viable and profitable in this environment, to build enthusiasm, and to keep the agrarian lifestyle in our heritage and communities. For more information, contact Harlen Rissler - 419-896-2234 or John Mark Weaver at 330-674-2069. Email: ohiograzing@yahoo.com
8:00 AM - Registration, Coffee & Donuts
8:25 AM - Welcome
8:30 AM - Unfair Advantage of Limited Acres:
- Atlee Yutzy
9:30 AM - 12 Years of Planned Grazing on 35 Acres:
- What we've seen take place - Shawn & Beth Dougherty
10:15 AM - Break/Vendor Show
10:45 AM - Pastures that Make Cows Smile
- John Daniel Schlabach
11:45 AM - Lunch/Vendor Show
12:45 PM - Future Farmers
Where Do We Fit - Ernest Weaver
1:30 PM - The First Million - Where did it Go
Panel: Anthony Schlabach, Daniel Mast, Christian Chupp, Paul Mark Mullet, with Wade Miller and Regina Beidler as moderators
2:30 PM - Vendor Show
2:45 PM - Mexico, continued from Thursday
- Atlee Raber
3:30 PM - Wrap Up
3:45 Adjourn
WOMEN'S SESSIONS
10:45 AM - Friendly, Welcoming Feel of the Farm
Couples Panel: Jeff & Miriam Hershberger, Edward & Ida Keim, Jacob & Laurie Shetler, David & Emily Hershberger
1:30 PM - A Land FLowing With Milk - Running a small family farm on all grass Dairy
- Shawn & Beth Dougherty
SHEPHERD"S SESSIONS
8:35 AM - Lambing and its Challenges
-Brady Campbell
9:35 AM - Break
10:00 AM - Shepherd's Panel
- Willis Schlabach, Jonathan Troyer, Levi Hershberger Jr, with Marion Yoder as moderator
12:30 PM - Alternatives Forages Panel
- Vernon Miller and Eli Schlabach with Danny Ray Gingerich as the moderator
1:30 PM - Transistioning from Dairy to Sheep
- Dustin Miller
2:30 PM - Livestock Guard Animals
- Rebecca Miller
For Vendor Info, Contact Vernon Mast - 330-600-1530
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